It's a failed argument in terms of the AWB, in any case. If you think the second amendment is either anachronistic or defends our right to pursue hobbies, then why should we support the free ownership of repeating arms of any kind? Bambi will be in all that much less trouble. And think, no more schoolyard mass killings with banana clip fed machines of death!
However, the second amendment is all about offering the Constitution a reset button. If all else fails, or if the country can't be defended by its conventional forces, the American people will always be well armed in order to defend themselves and their rights.
The founding fathers would have seen the 1934 firearms act as an infringement of our sacred rights, and they would have cried treason then.
I cry treason now.
Your first sentence suffers from the limitations expressed in your second sentence.
The 2A is there to allow citizens to defend themselves, period. Whether from foreign invasion, local goblins and perps, or from the Armed Forces of Janet Reno and Hildebeeste.
SEC. 201. INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.
In interpreting and applying the Constitution of the United States, a court of the United States may not rely upon any constitution, law, administrative rule, Executive order, directive, policy, judicial decision, or any other action of any foreign state or international organization or agency, other than the constitutional law and English common law.
>>the second amendment is all about offering the Constitution a reset button<<
Bingo! And, as Jefferson and Franklin made perfectly clear in the Declaration of Independence, no one in their right mind pushes that button unless they just can't take it any more.